I have great respect for all players of this instrument, whatever it is called and I like the sound of it whatever style is being played, for it truly must be THE versatile instrument?

It is probably, also the most physically uncomfortable to play?

Is it also the only instrument to have different names dependent on the style in which it is played and how did this convention come to be held? For it is a device, which has its practical uses but I think one that is not without a certain element of snobbery? Should it be changed and the instrument have one name, if so which one would be preferable?

For I think that I do still detect a general view that the classically trained violin player is superior to the many other forms of fiddle playing? A view, I do not necessarily share, having seen how far the fiddle can be taken in the hands of those who have come close to mastering the instrument. When the distinction between the two terms, fiddle player and violinist, becomes very blurred.